SHARE

Forty years of catching up to do for couple

In the weeks leading up to taking the GED test, Duane and Karen Sickler’s home was “piled knee-deep with scrap paper” with notes on math and grammar that they hadn’t thought about for 40 years.

“It was hard for us,” Duane Sickler said. “But we worked together. We walked in that day to take our math tests, and I was teasing my wife that we could pick probably nine other kids there, and the sum of their ages would add up to my age or her age.”

The Sicklers weren’t the only couple who were awarded their general educational development degrees at the University Center Ballroom at Colorado Mesa University on Wednesday.

Tyler and Aletha Brummitt also achieved that honor along with a father-son team, Randy and Randall Heisa.

Altogether, 64 students earned their GEDs in this year’s graduating ceremony. The graduates range in age from 16 to 65.